Book description
Psycho unit at Newton Centre, Hubble Straits finds that intimacy
doesn't lead to answers and Fremder's own memories are resolutely
obscure. Fremder's name means stranger, and his story, as one would
expect from Russell Hoban, is full of strangeness and brilliant imagery.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052: in the black sparkle of deep space a
figure in a blue overall tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the
planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be
alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only
survivor when the Corporation tanker Clever Daughter disappears. Nobody
knows how he did it, and everybody, including Fremder himself, wants to
know. Caroline Lovecraft, Head of the Physio Psycho unit at Newton
Centre, Hubble Straits finds that intimacy doesn't lead to answers and
Fremder's own memories are resolutely obscure. Fremder's name means
stranger, and his story, as one would expect from Russell Hoban, is full
of strangeness and brilliant imagery. Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052: in
the black sparkle of deep space a figure in a blue overall tumbles over
and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit,
no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First
Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanker
Clever Daughter disappears. Nobody knows how he did it, and everybody,
including Fremder himself, wants to know. Caroline Lovecraft, Head of
the Physio
